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Yesterday, I had to format my C:\ partition so as to reinstall Windows XP.

Berforehand I made a copy of my mbr by following the commands:1. # dd if=/dev/hdb/ of=backup.mbr bs=512 count=1So far, so good.

When I finished configuring Windows XP, I decided to recover the MBR records by using the following command:1. I put Linux Mint Live CD. Accessed my pen drive and copied the backup.mbr file to the desktop.2. I used the command # dd if=backup.mbr of=/dev/hdbThen I had my Grub working again.

What happens is that now, when I log into the system, my NTFS partitions don't appear on the Desktop until I mount them.

So, I wonder if anyone could help me making such partitions be mounted as soon as the system starts working.

from the repos. It will be in your menu. It will let you set read/write permissions and mounting. It will automatically add your Windows partition to your /etc/fstab file, so it will be mounted at boot.

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